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...same time, a reliable source disclosed that such a transaction was definitely integral to University success in obtaining the also controversial Bennett St. MTA yards across from Eliot and Kirkland Houses. Harvard has long wanted this site for construction of the tenth House called for in the Program for Harvard College...
...this is simply not true today. A '58 graduate now at the Law School participated both in the Glee Club and on the Student Council, and was not at all an "angry young commuter." Present-day commuters complain not about Dudley facilities or time spent on the MTA but about the University's policy of accepting fewer local students (which "discourages commuters"), and of Harvard's vacillation in choosing a new site for Dudley...
Master Leighton himself disagrees with those who think that the "presence of beds is the essential thing" in organizing House life for educational purposes. "The time spent on the MTA or looking for parking places," the Master said, "is not such a disadvantage that it cannot be overcome by other advantages more than adequate. Moreover, it is unfair to discriminate against a local boy if he wants to live at home. It should not be the aim of the College to take selected young manhood away from parents...
...forestall opposition from area legislators whose municipalities now pay heavily for the present MTA deficit, Volpe had emphasized that he would not ask that the financial operations of the two be combined. In any case, it appears that Senators from outside the Metropolitan area defeated the bill...
Defeat of the bill may also hamper the University's chances of obtaining the MTA yards across from Eliot and Kirkland Houses, where Harvard would locate the tenth House called for in the Program for Harvard College. It was reported last fall that the Old Colony had storage facilities which the MTA could have substituted for its Cambridge yards